| Title | Letters from 4th Earl of Clarendon [G. Villiers], E. Hammond [later 1st Baron Hammond], 2nd Earl Granville [G. Leveson-Gower], 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe [S. Canning], 3rd Baron Headley [C. Winn], W. Alexander, 6th Earl Mayo [R. Bourke, 2nd Baron Bloomfield [J. Bloomfield], Lord Augustus Loftus, C Mansfield, to Sir A. Buchanan, St Petersburg Russia; 1870. |
| Content Description | Letters refer to relations between England and Russia; the situation in the Balkans and central Asia; events leading up to outbreak of Franco-Prussian War and Turko-Russian War; european and British politics; the territorial dispute concerning Afghan borders is discussed in Lord Mayo's correspondence.
The region of Uzbekistan existed from c 1800 and was an area disputed between Turkey and Russia, which was conquered by Russia between 1868-1875; the Khiva region remained Turkish until 1873; Bukhara was ruled by Turks until 1868, as was the town of Samarkand; the Turkestan region was conquered from, Krasnovodsk, a town on the coast of the Caspian Sea [within the region]; the area was important for commerce especially with the building of the Trans-Caspian Railway; British interest in the region was due to commerce and the effect on India. |